Michael Umney – Audio and Documentary

Some work from the last decade. Click to listen (coming soon).

Radio Documentary

Daughters of Thunder (BBC World Service, 2026)

Ways of Not Seeing (BBC Radio 4, 2025) // “unusual and fascinating…consciously, brilliantly dizzying” – The Spectator)

Alvin Hall’s Other America (BBC Radio 4, 2024) // New York Festivals Gold Award, 2025

Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator (BBC Radio 4, 2021) / “erudite and engrossing” – Chortle

The Art of Now: Hearing Architecture (BBC Radio 4, 2020) // “a fabulous moving programme” – Grayson Perry; “exquisite radio; changes…the way you perceive the world.” – The Telegraph.

Art of Now: Dangerous Places (BBC Radio 4, 2018)

A Picture Held Us Captive (BBC Radio 4, 2017) “opens your mind like a blossoming flower.” – The Observer.

Between the Essays: Fugue (BBC Radio 3, 2016)